June 19, 2017 4:40 AM

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French election turnout heading for record low in second round

Voters turned out in record low numbers today in the second round of France's parliamentary election. President Emmanuel Macron is expected to win a landslide majority to help push through far-reaching pro-business reforms.<br/>'<br/>The vote comes just a month after the 39-year-old former banker became the youngest head of state in modern French history, promising to clean up French politics and revive the euro zone's second-biggest economy.<br/>'<br/>Macron's centrist Republic on the Move party is little more than a year old, yet pollsters project it will win as many as 75 to 80 per cent of the 577 seats in the lower house together with its centre-right MoDem ally.'<br/>'<br/>Polls before the vote showed Macron on course to win the biggest parliamentary majority since de Gaulle's own conservatives in 1968. The Socialist Party, which ruled France until last month, faces a humiliating defeat, which could see them with no more than 25 to 35 seats.<br/>

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